[DECtalk] Elan sayso demo

Blake Roberts beroberts at hughes.net
Tue Jan 27 08:45:02 EST 2015


Lucy is one of the voices.
Blake

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Existed lucy on 2004? 

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please link on rusian and polish forum. recieve greting for slovenia.
Dne 25.1.2015 ob 10:58 je Piotr Machacz via Dectalk zapisal(a):
> I first found it on a Polish forum years ago, then lost the file, then 
> found it again on a russian one. The original link, which was also 
> hosted on Dropbox is now dead but I managed to find it on one of my 
> drives.
> To your second question, no, but I do know the person who created it 
> who wants to remain anonymous. I just helped with testing, sent the 
> links out and occasionally prodded development forward. It actually 
> still needs work but said person "can't be bothered" right now... So 
> we'll see.
> On 1/25/2015 6:48 AM, Jake Gross via Dectalk wrote:
>> Thank you. Where did you find this?
>> p.s. Are you the same person who created the softvoice nvda addon?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Blake Roberts via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>> To: "'DECtalk'" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com Date sent: Sat, 24 Jan 
>> 2015 10:08:48 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
>>
>> Very interesting find! Thanks for posting about it. These voices from
>> 2004
>> might not be fully compatible with Windows 7. I say might because 
>> selecting the voices in JAWS and NVDA results in silence and JAWS 
>> appears to crash.
>> However, I can use the Elan voices in TextAloud with no problems at all.
>> Strange... Although I will probably end up uninstalling them soon, I 
>> might reinstall them in the future. Since the installer was created 
>> prior to Windows 7, I suppose difficulties like the ones I experience 
>> can be anticipated.
>> Blake
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Piotr Machacz via Dectalk
>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:15 AM
>> To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>> Subject: [DECtalk] Elan sayso demo
>>
>> Since people are sharing their finds, here's something kind of 
>> interesting. This is a 2004 or there abouts demo of Acapela Elan 
>> sayso TTS. Elan speech had at this point purchased another company, 
>> Digalo, and also included their engines and they also made a few of their
own.
>> This  is a demo that you could get for free from Elan by request that 
>> includes all of their offerings, plus documentation as well as SAPI 4 
>> and 5 API's. It includes quite a few voices in many languages, 
>> including very old versions of Aaron, Graham and Lucy, as well as 
>> others that you've probably never heard before. The catch? It's a 
>> 30-day trial, except someone didn't check the code right so as a 
>> result once the demo runs out, you can just uninstall and install it 
>> again and you'll get another 30 days. It definitely installs and 
>> works on XP, I'm not sure about newer WIndows versions.
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1584584/ela%20sayso%20tts.7z
>>
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